1. The powerful East and Gulf Coast dockworker's strike is a major milestone in a growing offensive by the working class for a better quality of life

2. Socialist Will Lehman calls the US dockworkers' strike a critical turning point for the struggles of the entire international working class

3. Strike by dockworkers in Montreal coincides with and must link up with the ongoing strike US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers

4. Striking dockworkers speak to reporters from the World Socialist Web Site

5. After Iran's retaliatory missile strikes on Israel, US officials clamor for a massive retaliation against Iran, even as Israel bombards and invades Lebanon

6. Tragic stories and pictures continue to emerge from the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene's rampage across the US Appalachian region

7. Since 2019, food bank usage in the Canadian province of Ontario more than doubles... why?

8. The lethal injection of a Texas prisoner is the United States' sixth execution in a 10-day period

9.  The next pandemic? Missouri cases of human H5N1 ‘avian’ influenza lack a clear source, and suggest human-to-human transmission may have occurred

10. Rupert Murcoch's newspaper, The Australian, publishes a column by a military-intelligence insider that insists Australia must mobilize civil defense to prepare for a nuclear war

11. Thousands of people told to evacuate or shelter in place after an accidental fire at a manufacturing plant gets out of control near Atlanta, Georgia 

12. Arts faculty cuts at Sydney, Australia’s Macquarie University are a part of the Labor government’s pro-business plans to restructure public universities

13. Hack biographer, Aidan Beatty, is caught lying about "the Tate Affair" in a current interview he gives to the pseudo-leftist publication, Jacobin

14. Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan suddenly cancels an exhibition for dubious reasons

15. The venal UAW is rattled by a rebellion of independent rank-and-file workers at the Detroit area Stellantis Warren Truck Assembly Plant

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1. Washington in "continuous conversation" with Israel as it begins its invasion of Lebanon

2. As the apocalyptic destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Helene is revealed, the weakening ability of modern capitalist society to withstand such disasters and remedy their worst consequences is also revealed

3. Julian Assange speaks: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”

4. Report demands that the UK become war-ready because the US military's focus on the Indo-Pacific will leave it less capable of defending itself within Europe

5. Pseudo-leftist "socialists" Evo Morales and Luis Arce and their factions squabble over who is to control their party and Bolivia

6. The United States proves again that it has the distinction of being the only country which sentences children to life without parole

7. Las Vegas' Neon City Music Festival drops rapper Macklemore from its entertainment lineup because of his defense of Palestinians and his criticism of the US Democratic Party

8. A reactionary far-right political party gains power in Austria, just as others like it have in Italy, the Netherlands, and three states in Germany

9. Australian Labor Party takes pride at inflicting painful austerity measures to slash government spending

10. One striker killed and four injured when a truck collides into their picket at the Eaton Aerospace plant in Jackson, Michigan; Socialist Equality Party US vice-presidential candidate Jerry White visits and speaks to workers

11. Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College fires anthropology professor Maura Finkelstein for her social media posts opposing Israel's genocide 

12. Cornell University president defends the suspension of Momodou Taal in an effort to crack down on outspoken political opposition on campus to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

13. Seven key transit and transportation unions in Argentina plan a 24-hour protest strike on October 17th against the austerity policies of Javier Milei

14. Although the ninth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US is currently receding and new treatments are being discovered, public health efforts to address ongoing widespread infections and a coming new wave are minimal and being largely abandoned

15. Pro-Palestinian students, faculty and staff barred from the University of California Santa Cruz file a legal complaint that will be heard on November 19th

16. The Australian Labor government threatens thousands of workers and young people across Australia protesting Israel’s ongoing crimes in Palestine and the Middle East

17. Launching a potentially powerful strike wave across the United States, tens of thousands of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers angered by low and stagnant pay go on strike

18. Prominent pseudo-leftist representatives in the European Parliament vote in favor of escalating NATO's war with Russia

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1. Israeli murder of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah demonstrates that the US has no intention of establishing peace in the Middle East

2. With war and austerity in the making, US President Biden sends wishes for peace and prosperity to Sri Lanka's new president

3. The determined strike by 33,000 Boeing workers enters its third week and has the potential of spreading to other industries and workers

4. Installation of new prime minister Shigeru Ishiba will accelerate Japan's remilitarization and preparations for war against China

5. 45,000 rank-and-file US East and Gulf Coast dockworkers are determined to carry out a strike to defend jobs and working conditions

6. "Biblical devastation" in Western North Carolina: Hurricane Helene leaves a wake of destruction and death across Appalachia

7. CEO of Chicago Public Schools refuses to resign amid fiscal problems that portend system-wide school closures; Democrats split about how best to manage a deepening fiscal crisis while preventing a workers rebellion against austerity

8. Fourth largest outbreak of the incurable Marburg hemorrhagic fever virus emerges in Rwanda

9. The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, settles a strike by its musicians that lasted less than a day

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1. A week of executions in America: "There is no “humane” way to carry out a state killing."

2. Defend Momodou Taal's rights! Defend the rights of all pro-Palestinian protesters!

3. Kamala Harris and the Democrats have completely adopted the Republican anti-immigrant platform and dropped any and all language about “abolishing ICE”

4. Artists who demonstrate principle in our tumultuous times

5. Making a mockery of supposed ceasefire proposals by the Biden-Harris administration and its allies, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announces his “seven-front war” before the UN General Assembly

6. Thousands protest in New York City against fascist Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit to warmonger at the United Nations General Assembly

7. Hurricane Helene, the largest storm to strike the US this year, is not merely a natural disaster, but an economic and social disaster as well

8. The intent behind Germany’s largest refugee camp is not driven by humanitarian concerns, but by profit-making concerns

9. Just days away-- East and Gulf Coasts dockworkers are committed to strike against stagnant wages, unsafe working environments and the threat that automation and AI have over their jobs

10. Sri Lankan elites view newly-elected, austerity-pledging president as a golden opportunity to boost their wealth

11. Japan attempts to provoke China by sailing a warship through the Taiwan Strait

12. Wellington, New Zealand railworkers must reject their union's sellout contract which would result in a real wage cut

13. End result of a long management-trade union alliance: hundreds of jobs to disappear along with Scotland's century-old Grangemouth oil refining operation

14. Ignoring Russian President Putin's nuclear threats, NATO doubles down on approving long-range missiles targeting Russia from Ukraine

15. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at Western Sydney University in Australia will meet October 8 to discuss effective ways to resist war and genocide

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1. After NATO expresses approval of Ukraine firing missiles into Russian territory, President Putin issues his most blunt and concrete threat to date to use nuclear weapons

 2. In the face of vicious attacks by pro-Zionists pressuring community organizations and anti-genocide protesters,  Palestinian Bisan Owda wins an Emmy award for her journalism

3. While its imperialist backers issue toothless calls for a ceasefire, Israel presses forward with its bloodthirsty plans for Lebanon

4. Protests organized by trade unions under conditions of growing social anger and opposition in Turkey are aimed at controlling the working class

5. Scandal reveals relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office, the British government and media (including the BBC), and Zionist lobby groups masquerading as Jewish community groups

6. VW's longstanding “employment security agreement” to be terminated; 3,000 German workers go on strike

7. Toronto International Film Festival bravely screens Russians at War, a movie its director describes as being about “the small man who is a cog in every war machine"

8. Police shootings highlight ongoing turmoil in New Caledonia where independence prospects dim after French President Macron's government turns rightward

9. Labor government's reform bills "just a drop in the ocean compared to the acute shortage of affordable housing" available in Australia

10. With no investigation, nor a chance to yet respond to allegations against him, Momodou Taal faces suspension and deportation from the US if a Cornell University provost rules against him

11. By endorsing Missouri Josh Hawley for reelection, the SMART bureaucracy, which controls over 200,000 railworkers, is only the latest union to throw in its lot with fascism

12. The World Socialist Web Site speaks to a veteran worker from the Stellantis Warren Truck plant who is willing to fight for his job: "Nobody trusts the union. Even the local"

13. Republicans' campaign against immigrants serves two main purposes: to divide the working class and to create conditions for Trump to incite violence and change the results of the US election

14. The culmination of a virtual collapse of the Democratic political machine in New York City: Mayor Eric Adams faces bribery charges

15. Part of a global upsurge of the working class, Michigan hospital workers speak out before voting to authorize a strike  

16. Stakeholders (management, union, and government officials) negotiate behind the backs of striking Boeing workers

17. Report about dangerous drinking water from Australia's Blue Mountain region exposes an official cover-up going back decades

18. Inaugural address by Sri Lankan president indicates his government's first order of business will be to impose savage austerity measures

19. Playing all sides, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer dines with Donald Trump at Trump Tower

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1. Creating opportunity for Corporate America: in a major policy speech in Pittsburgh, everybody's Momala, Kamala Harris, makes her pitch to Wall Street 

2. The outrage of millions around the world, and clear evidence a Missouri inmate was innocent, could not hold back the hands of cold capitalist justice-- a commentary on Marcellus Williams' death by lethal injection

3. President Putin proposes an update to Russia’s nuclear policy that would expand the conditions under which Moscow would use nuclear weapons

4. The San Francisco Symphony Chorus goes on strike

5. Anti-genocide protests in Spain point to mass opposition but require a class-oriented political perspective to be effective

6. Pseudo-left attempt to form a leadership incubator or a "Labour Party Mark II" in the UK: Corbynites hold a secretive meeting aimed at starting a new political party named Collective

7. According to polls, the fascistic, anti-refugee Freedom Party will likely find success in Austrian elections

8. War concerns inform decision to put the construction of an Intel chip factor in former East Germany on hold

9. Due to waning international cooperation to address global climate change, forest fires are burning all across the Amazon Basin with devastating consequences

10. Why is the mainstream media confused by the Teamsters' de facto endorsement of Trump?

11. What 45,000 dockworkers at 36 ports on the East and Gulf Coasts need to know as they prepare to strike

12. Newly elected prime minister of Sri Lanka calls for immediate snap elections to solidify power and implement IMF-dictated austerity measures

13. Is China's $114 billion economic stimulus the "big bazooka" needed to placate it's rising middle class?

14. A Boeing machinist explains why striking workers are outraged by Boeing's “Best and Final Contract Offer”

15. Parti Québécois' recent electoral successes over the established Coalition Avenir Québec parallels the strengthening of far-right forces elsewhere

16. After a three-year investigation, an Australian commission reports concerns of a "hollowing-out" within its military ranks due to high suicide rates

17. Japan's main opposition political party shifts further to the right with the installation of a former prime-minister, Yoshihiko Noda, as its head

18. Feckless Uncommitted Movement tells its followers to pinch their noses and vote for Kamala Harris

19. After Hezbollah launches a long-range missile toward Tel Aviv, the Israeli Defense Forces are told to prepare for a ground invasion of Lebanon; US Secretary of State Antony Blinken endorses the pager attack on Lebanon that maimed thousands

20. Australian Socialist Equality Party surmounts hurdles to submit application to gain "official" political party status

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1. US President's tirade at the UN General Assembly reveals an Arcanum Imperii designed to preserve the wealth and privileges of the American financial oligarchy

2. Stepping up economic warfare against China, the Biden administration announces a ban on the use of Chinese-made software in cars and other vehicles

3. The permanent medium-range missile system the US is putting in the Philippines directly targets China from a distance several hundred miles less than the distance between Havana and Washington DC

4. Boeing's “Best and Final Contract Offer” is a provocation that striking workers should reject

5. "We need to come together as one." Sympathetic to the Boeing workers' strike, Eaton aerospace workers in Jackson, Michigan also seek better working conditions and benefits in a walkout strike

6. New study reports that billions of people with a history of COVID-19, but no symptoms of long COVID, may still have cognitive issues

7. A Cornell University student is suspended and threatened with deportation because of his participation in anti-genocide protests on campus

8. In the face of mass opposition, an innocent man is killed this week in Missouri, US, by lethal injection

9. Taiwan tries to distance its connection to deadly pagers that Israel detonated in Lebanon

10. 10,000 nurses and midwives rallying across New South Wales, Australia must beware the futility of making toothless reform appeals

11. Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site speak to striking New South Wales, Australian nurses and midwives

12. Let-go workers at the Noguchi Museum in New York City speak out: if he could, Isamu Noguchi would undoubtedly condemn Israel's current genocide in Gaza

13. Fascistic and anti-immigrant German politicians exploit mass disaffection of voters with establishment parties to win in recent elections

14. Wellington, New Zealand rail workers who had voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike action were not allowed by their union to vote on ending it

15. Following a gruesome rape and killing of a trainee doctor in India, brawling politicians shunt aside critical issues to demand reactionary penalties for future crimes

16. Union suspends strike action at a Sheffield, UK university to allow staff redundancies to proceed as school enrollments drop

17. UK nurses faced with double dealing and the establishments' empty prattle about nurses being “valued” overwhelmingly reject a pay "award"

18. The newly installed French government effectively adopts the program of the unpopular far-right National Rally and explodes promises made by Mélenchon's New Popular Front that it would keep fascists from power

19. Ten years of May Day speeches by Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North are now available in print: Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War

20. Veteran Trotskyist Steve Long comments on Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North's review of Aidan Beatty's vile, misleading, and self-serving biography of Gerry Healy

21. With imperialist powers' acquiescence, Israel escalates its onslaught of Lebanon which threatens a regional war

22. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an historic speech to please far-right and backward elements who scapegoat immigrants and promote austerity and war

23. He never wavered in his defense of socialist and internationalist principles: Vernon Stevens, a long-time member and supporter of the Socialist Equality Party, dies of COVID, aged 82

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1. Boeing under intense pressure from Wall Street to defeat its workers' strike, slaps a deadline on latest contract offers

2. While the election of Anura Kumara Dissanayake signals abrupt political shifts globally, the claim that Sri Lanka's newly elected president is a "Marxist" is a grotesque lie

3. Israeli shows it is out to completely reorganize the Middle East and provoke a region-wide war by its latest catastrophic attack on Lebanon

4. SAG-AFTRA seeks to end entertainment workers' strike by isolating and demoralizing workers, and by ignoring the threat to their jobs posed by AI 

5. A blow to right-wing conspiracy theories: latest research explains the zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2

6. BorgWarner auto parts workers in Lansing, New York end strike after Teamsters sellout contract is ratified under duress

7. Study shows that the number of pregnant women dying in Texas has risen dramatically since abortion was banned

8. Missouri's Supreme Court and Governor Mike Parson reject clemency for death row inmate who is innocent

9. Prominent Australian Jewish leader, Louise Adler, condemns Israeli regime's barbarism and exposes the myth that the Zionist regime in Israel represents the Jewish people

10. New South Wales railworkers' union, posturing as an opponent of privatization, calls off industrial action

11. By debating a reinterpretation of an historic fraud, the Treaty of Waitangi, the New Zealand government scapegoats its Maori minority to hide its nation's growing class divide

12. University of California administrators and regents purchase military equipment and expand powers to intimidate anti-genocide student protesters and the anti-war movement

13. Hamilton, Ontario National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee issues statement to address deadly working conditions

14. A spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down: UK Labour government seeks a way to disguise its unpopular plans to implement austerity

15. Turkish government measures to maintain fiscal discipline will worsen the living and working conditions of the working class

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1. At this week's upcoming meeting of its General Assembly, the United Nations will provide a reliable stage for imperialist nations and their promotion of war

2. To win in presidential elections, pseudo-leftists were able to exploit Sri Lankans' mass opposition to the political establishment

3. Do the guardians of the capitalist financial system have things in hand? Talk behind the curtain suggests perhaps not

4. A “hot mic” moment exposes the hidden agenda behind the recent Biden-hosted Quadrilateral Security Dialogue 

5. Why is Seattle planning to close between 17 and 21 public elementary schools next year?

6. As part of a ruling class counteroffensive against demands for higher wages by workers, tech companies downsize by laying off thousands of workers

7. Corporate and financial interests fear a looming East and Gulf Coast dockworkers' strike and pen letter to Biden administration to intervene more heavily

8. 5,000 machinists at Textron Aviation in Wichita, Kansas go on strike after rejecting IAM contract

9.  Defend Berlin public bus driver Andy Niklaus who was suspended from his job, then warned, for speaking out against Israeli genocide

10. Romania beset with problems: highest European inflation, looming war with Russia, and "forever" COVID-19 pandemic policies

11. The pretense that the ethnic cleansing of Gazans can be ended by pressuring Keir Starmers' Labour Party: 19th national rally opposing Israeli genocide is held in Liverpool, England

12. World Socialist Web Site reporters interview participants at weekend Gaza protest in Liverpool, England 

13. How the US political establishment reacts to the vile lieutenant governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson

14. A "complex issue": cast, crew and director all angry after their modern adaption of a Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream is cancelled at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester

15. Amid a developing political crisis, a former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary is wheeled out in the corporate media to promote a big business push for the Albanese Labor government to more aggressively attack the wages and conditions of workers

16. South Carolina executes prisoner even after a key witness issues a sworn statement saying he had lied at the inmate's trial

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1. Israel’s latest criminal acts of terror against Lebanese civilians are mostly met by silence in capitols of North America and Europe

2. Boeing, beginning to feel the pressure of it's 33,000 striking workers, responds by sending out furloughs

3. Tentative agreement announced by railworkers' union, SMART-TD, would destroy jobs and open the way for one-person crews

4. Allies of Trump are purging voters and changing election rules ahead of the US presidential election

5. Sri Lanka’s presidential election is being held amid an unprecedented breakup of the country’s establishment parties and a deepening social and economic crisis

6. “Bias-based policing tactics” on protesters: Detroit Police Department has been monitoring and gathering information on hundreds of individuals

7. Setting the stage for a wider attack on basic democratic rights: Australian university officials chided for not stamping out campus dissent

8. VW Rank-and-File Committee invites other autoworkers to join and fight for their rights independent of the corrupt IG Metall bureaucracy

9. In Brazil: GM is counting on the services of São José dos Campos Metalworkers Union to suppress workers' opposition to a new round of job cuts

10. Canadian by-election lessons: the absence of a working class political alternative left the field open for reactionary political forces to gain ground

11. Washington's conspiratorial efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Maduro fail after suffering a series of blows

12. The strongest storm to hit Southeast Asia this year, Typhoon Yagi, leaves a trail of death and destruction

13. Australian government, along with its imperialist allies, tacitly endorse Israels' carnage in Lebanon

14. Decades of underfunded ambulance services contributes to a Melbourne, Australian man's death

15. While NATO plans gel to attack targets in the Russian heartland, the German government prepares a massive 1.4 billion euro arms package for Ukraine

16. A USPS auxiliary workers' contract expires while their management carries out an historic attack on jobs and postal services under the “Delivering for America” restructuring program

17. Needing a global strategy, exploited Samsung Electronics workers in India cripple production by walking off jobs

18. Delicatessen meat supplier, Boar's Head, shuts down its Virginia plant after a deadly nationwide listeria outbreak in the US

19. Pennsylvania-Ohio Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee resolves to condemn the fascist violence being directed against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio

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1. Trump's threatened visit to Springfield, Ohio is calibrated to incite violence, discredit the 2024 election process, and build his fascist movement

2. Before Ukrainian President Zelensky visits the US, questions remain after a long-range missile strikes a Russian arms depot

3. Criminal past, activism on behalf of Ukraine's recruitment of mercenaries, and other details emerge following the arrest of man accused of the second assassination attempt on Trump

4. Middle East at the brink of all-out war: Israel conducts bombing raids and threatens a full-scale invasion of Lebanon

5. Jordan fearful and on alert as imperialist-backed war in the Middle East escalates

6. Falling behind: a recent report describes existential challenges facing European Union members

7. Militaristic, right-wing, and authoritarian: Ursula von der Leyen introduces the public to the new European Union commissioners

8. Port of Seattle dockworkers speak out in support of 33,000 striking Boeing workers

9. UAW President Shawn Fain puts on a "militancy" act to dupe Stellantis workers and keep them from defending their own interests independent of the corrupt union bureaucracy

10. A sellout deal "to be proud of": Canadian Unifor rushes a tentative agreement before GM workers can study it

11. OECD report reveals UK's pronounced stinginess at providing children public primary school education

12. Censoring freedom of expression: the German government pressures an arts center to cancel a controversial art exhibition

13. Amid the ninth wave of infections: COVID is still here and leaving behind lasting health consequences

14. Protests erupt in NYC following police shooting a fare evader: "The only way the city and state, both run by the Democratic Party, can 'speak' to the poorest layers of the population who cannot afford to pay the fare is to employ police violence"

15. In partnership with the Labour government, the British Medical Association trade union sells out junior doctors with a "shabby pay deal"

16. Pseudo-leftist political parties try to exploit Sri Lankans' hatred of their country’s bourgeois elites and the traditional ruling political parties

17. The Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka concludes its presidential campaign at Colombo's Public Library

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1. Israeli terror attack in Lebanon indicates the willingness of the US to embrace the methods of mass murder and terrorism to achieve its aims

2. The campaigns of the two major capitalist candidates, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, have been almost entirely overshadowed by violence and threats of violence

3. US Federal Reserve's base interest rate cut had more to do with the issue of workers' wage struggles than with the prospect of a recession

4. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to airline workers about their support of determined Boeing workers' historic strike

5. Aerospace workers in Michigan join Washington State Boeing workers by going on strike

6. Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding an online meeting this Sunday!

7. Emergence of anti-immigrant faction in Germany influences xenophobic, anti-worker stances of pseudo-leftists in Spain

8. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to VW autoworkers in Germany who fear losing their jobs

9. Tens of thousands march in Belgium to oppose Audi manufacturing plant shutdowns

10. The struggle against the Gaza genocide in Britain requires a political struggle against Keir Starmer’s Labour government

11. Actors and entertainment workers issue an open letter demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to blacklisting

12. Former Australian minister decries unconditional alliances that would ensure his country becomes a target for nuclear weapons

13. Tens of thousands of building industry workers strike and carry out mass rallies in Australian cities

14. Do not vote for capitalist politicians! Socialist Equality Party candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena appeals for votes in Sri Lanka's presidential election: "Only the SEP tells the truth to the working class and oppressed masses!"

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1. Socialist Equality Party Chairman David North's eloquent and damning response to Aidan Beatty’s fraudulent biography of Gerry Healy

2. Historic strike: workers overwhelmingly reject demands by Boeing and the IAM union bureaucracy that they pay for the the corporation's financial crisis

3. Tiny bombs hidden in pagers to target Hezbollah wreak death, injury, and terror across Lebanon; meanwhile a UN spokesman describes Gaza as a "graveyard for children"

4. Threat of fascist violence hangs over the entire US in lead up to its presidential election: Trump and his followers ratchet up blame and hate following the second assassination attempt on Trump

5. Pursuing concrete geopolitical and economic goals: Germany joins US and UK to grant permission to Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deep into Russian territory

6. US steps up censorship campaign against Russian state media: following State Department accusations, Meta Platforms and YouTube ban RT

7. CVS workers in California are in a powerful position to strike for higher wages and COVID safety. Their chief obstacle is the UFCW bureaucracy

8. Provocation? Leaked memorandum draws the concerns of Malaysia amid inflamed tensions between China and the Philippines over territory in the South China Sea

9. Climate researchers were not surprised by recent catastrophic flooding in Central Europe and elsewhere around the globe

10. Quebec man who sought state-sanctioned suicide transforms his hopelessness into strength after publicity about his debilitating Long COVID

11. World-renowned Brazilian bandleader Sergio Mendes dies from Long COVID

12. A warning to students returning to classes: The threat of world war and fascism is greater today than at any point since the 1930s

13. Mexican autoworkers' union blocks international effort to unite workers by ramming through a sellout contract

14. In lead up to elections, the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka rejects both the Sinhala chauvinist politics of the Colombo elite and the communal politics of the Tamil bourgeois parties by calling action committees throughout the island to make basic democratic demands

15. The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee urges nurses and midwives in Victoria, Australia to vote “no” on their union's sellout deal

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1. Perspective on the need to oppose United States university administrations' crackdowns on students' democratic rights

2. What has happened since the tragic death of Ford Rouge Dearborn Truck Plant worker Tywaun Long five months ago?

3. 800 auto parts workers in Lansing, New York on strike after rejecting Teamster sellout deals

4. Striking Boeing machinists across Washington, Oregon and California becoming champions in the United States' class struggle

5. Democratic Party puppet UAW President Shawn Fain stages a bogus "Day of Action"

6. UAW union ratifies a sellout contract for Sandusky Ventra auto parts workers in Ohio

7. Bloody separatist Baloch military operation rattles Pakistan's government and military establishment

8. Brutal former Peruvian president Fujimori, friend of multinational corporations, draws followers to his funeral and is honored with 3 days of official mourning

9. FBI opens investigation of a man who is the suspect of a second assassination attempt on Trump

10. After chasing a fare evader: three injured and one killed by police on New York City subway

11. Australian Labor government’s programs could lead to a right-wing Liberal-National Coalition regime

12. Before their contract expires, East Coast dockworkers speak to the World Socialist Web Site about their hazardous work

13. China supplants the US and Europe as Africa’s main trading and investment partner

14. Turkey's attempts to "play all sides" by applying to join the G7's organizational rival, BRICS

15. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's “fantastic” meeting with fascist scion, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni

16.  34 Democrats drawn from the ranks of the military-intelligence apparatus are running for Congress in the United States this year

17. UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds meeting to organize fight against a conspiracy of Royal Mail's management and a private equity firm

18. Canadian and UK postal workers recognize the need to build rank-and-file committees across national boundaries

19. The Socialist Equality Party in Australia calls for construction workers to build rank-and-file committees

20. Important document emerges that describes how an imprisoned Marxist-led Trotskyist opposition to Stalin's bureaucracy upheld and developed the principles of revolutionary internationalism and the strategy of permanent revolution

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1. Democratic Party's response to Trump's fascist anti-immigrant campaign gives him free rein to escalate it further 

2. Top military leader adds his voice to a torrent of demands from within the US and European political establishment and media for further NATO escalation against Russia

3. Who pays for Israel's war against Palestinians?

4. Enthusiasm won't be enough for striking Boeing workers to achieve their goals. The rank and file must take control!

5. Workers at the CAMI Auto Assembly in Ontario, Canada need not be railroaded into agreeing to a poor contract

6. As part of a general crackdown on anti-war voices, the University of Michigan bans Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality members from its campus

7. Part of a suppression of the rights of students and workers to protest war and genocide: Michigan Attorney General files charges against pro-Palestinian protesters

8. Review of an important film inspired by the true story of slave labor in Saudi Arabia, The Goat Life

9. Some of the UK’s poorest households will face another winter of hardship: findings reveal that half the people claiming welfare payments had run out of food in the past month

10. How pseudo-left politicians campaign in Sri Lanka is not very different from how they campaign in other countries

11. Report by Benjamin Mateus and Bryan Dyne to the Eighth Congress of the US Socialist Equality Party: H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class

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Other stories at the World Socialist Web Site today:

Chinese leadership concerned over meeting growth targets

Three rail unions announce sellout contract at CSX without releasing vote details

Rail workers vote to strike in Wellington, New Zealand

Australian Labor government unveils sweeping political censorship laws

College administrators escalate crackdown on students who protested against the Gaza genocide

1.  Signing off on a decision that has already been made: the United States and Russia are on the verge of open warfare

2. Sticking together: Day one of 33,000 Boeing workers being on strike

3. Two years after the mass uprising of millions: Sri Lankan capitalist presidential candidates jockey to appease the International Monetary Fund and it's austerity measures

4. With immigrants “scared for their lives", Trump vows to carry out “the largest deportation in the history of our country"

5. The World Socialist Web Site interviews the director of Paradise, set in Sri Lanka, who says his goal was to draw out the social fabric, the social situation, and to show how the personal interacts with the political

6. The Toronto International Film Festival is pressured into canceling screenings of a documentary about the lives of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine

7. Russian authorities under Putin's Bonapartist regime calls for greater restrictions on the rights of immigrants

8. Chilling ugliness: passage of German warships through the Taiwan Strait is a deliberate provocation against China

9. Cases of COVID infection in Brazil, whose vaccination response has been inadequate and plagued with problems, more than doubled in August, and continues to rise

10. Air Canada and other business interests demand that the union-backed Liberal government intervene to impose binding arbitration and stop a pilot strike

11. Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana, power company Entergy looks for profit in bailouts 

12. Even as billions are hauled in by the super rich and military, a government-commissioned report describes the UK's National Health Service as being starved of funds

13. Far-right group, favored by officials, raises money to keep Canadian government from declassifying the names of more than 900 Nazi war criminals who were once admitted as immigrants

14. Australian socialists host forum on government's xenophobic exclusion of foreign exchange students

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1. NATO close to crossing thresholds that could risk provoking Russia to retaliate with nuclear weapons

2. “It’s the young workers that we’re most concerned about." --Boeing workers strike after overwhelmingly rejecting their union's sellout contract

3. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) rail union agreement announcement is part of a broader effort by all rail union bureaucracies to force through pro-company deals across the industry

4. War crime: fascistic Israeli attack on UN-run school in Gaza kills children, humanitarian workers, and refugees

5.  "This war is the best thing that’s ever happened to the Nazis in Ukraine": the World Socialist Web Site interviews an independent researcher who has studied the western lionization of Stepan Bandera

6. With the complicity of the Democratic Party "a pogrom-like atmosphere against immigrants in the US (spearheaded by Republicans) is being whipped up in the lead-up to the November election"

7. Second migration state summit held in Germany adopts the far-right's quest to turn back refugees, seal off borders and undermine the basic right to asylum

8. What is the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, and what is its mandate?

9. Capitalist governments are slow to respond in any meaningful way to spreading mpox disease

10. Scientists warn that the evolving H5N1 avian influenza is likely to arrive in Australia

11. "Warts and all": Australian union boss uncritically echoes corporate media and the big business Labor government's accusations of criminality in a construction workers' union

12. Although ignored by the authorities and the mainstream media, COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in Canada

13. Triple-digit heat wave exacerbates devastating fires in Southern California

14. Pressure from banks and their lobbyists gut financial reform proposals by the US Federal Reserve

15.  A cloudy, enigmatic, and occasionally disturbing work: a review of a film its director describes as "an allegory for the experience of transgender individuals"

16. Multi-agency manhunt seeks Kentucky highway shooter suspect, a former US Army reservist

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1. US Presidential debate spectacle holds a mirror up to a political system in extraordinary crisis

2. US-led preparations for war with China stymied by Chinese dominance over the processing of world's raw materials

3. Details suggesting tragic failures emerge about the 14-year-old shooter at Apalachee High School in Georgia

4. Exposed: German rail operator Deutsche Bahn's callous disregard of accidents costing the lives of its rail workers

5. Abrupt closing of the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto met with public contempt

6. Stalled negotiations between the SEIU and Boston University has resident assistants joining strike of graduate students who have been on strike since March

7. CDC recommendations and latest vaccine rollout are lackadaisical despite toll of COVID's latest victims

8.  Anura Kumara Dissanayake, People's Liberation Front (JVP) political party leader allied with the National People's Power (NPP), running to be president in Sri Lanka, proves he is no Marxist by defending IMF austerity measures

9. Following unsigned Guardian propaganda, tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets used against mostly peaceful anti-war protesters outside of an arms manufacturers' expo in Melbourne, Australia

10. What is the definition of "social murder?" No consequences are resulting from damning conclusions about who was responsible for London's 2017 Grenfell residential building fire

11. Government and unions shut down brief strike by airport workers fearing privatization plans at Kenya's international airport

12. Message from the new Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee: Vote "No!" to IAM's sellout contract!

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1. Perspective on how Israel and its imperialist allies is responsible for famine in Gaza: "Nothing is criminal to us," capitalism effaces all the "red lines" that demarcate civilization from barbarism

2. Boeing workers must appeal to the working class across the United States and around the world, including 50,000 public workers who are now striking in the State of Washington

3. Imperialist brinkmanship: after Ukrainian drones attack within Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to signal permission for Ukraine to to utilize deadlier weapons

4. Awarded filmmakers denounce Israel's genocide at the this year's Venice International Film Festival

5. The World Socialist Web Site interviews a Palestinian resident about the precariousness of living in the West Bank: "every little movement, every voice, every expression of opinion really does make a difference."

6. A young Ukrainian in Germany describes why Bogdan Syrotiuk was imprisoned in Ukraine for fabricated reasons: Trotskyism cannot be equated with Russian militarism. Trotskyism has nothing in common with any kind of militarism, chauvinism or nationalism at all. Trotskyism is the primary enemy of militarism, chauvinism and nationalism.

7. Whipping up a pogrom-like atmosphere: what is the deal with Republicans believing Haitian immigrants are eating people's pets?

8. The United States and the Philippines secretly cooperate in the South China sea where Chinese and Philippine vessels are ramming each other

9. Canadian postal worker's union conspires with management to ram through a rotten contract

10. 17,000 southeastern US workers are in the fourth week of their strike against telecommunication giant, AT&T

11. Establishment political parties in Germany try to outdo the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) by scapegoating refugees and immigrants

12. Volkswagen conglomerate declares war on its workers. Workers must take action!

13. Sounding a sharp warning: Stellantis Warren Assembly Plant workers in Detroit must organize before expected job cuts

14. Unpopular Albanese Labor government in Australia imploding further as a key minister calls it quits: an overview of Australia's recent political history

15. Latest economic data from the United States and China describe slowdowns and forecast recession

16. Rejecting their government's retrograde settlement offerings, thousands of nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia walk off their jobs

17. New South Wales, Australian nurses and midwives speak out about oppressive working conditions

18. Fake solidarity on show: Royal Mail postal workers' union exposes two-faces at a UK trade union conference

19. Cold winter ahead: Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party, OK's cuts to pensioners' fuel subsidies

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1. Report from UN investigator describes how Israel intentionally starves Palestinians in Gaza

2. How and why pseudo-leftists try to paint US Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris as a "progressive"

3. Florida Governor Ron DeDantis uses police-state methods to intimidate anti-abortion petition signers

4. Governmental neglect contributes to the spread of the Mpox virus in Canada: 164 cases so far this year

5. Hundreds of thousands march in Paris to protest French President Macron's appointment of right-wing Prime Minister Michel Barnier

6. France's far-right National Rally (RN) party enthused with Prime Minister Michel Barnier

7. Hundreds of thousands protesting austerity measures in Kenya need to overcome being corralled by ruthless trade union bureaucracies

8. Court ruling exposes how the United States' H-2B non-immigrant temporary visa program exploits foreign workers

9. Noguchi Museum in New York City fires gallery attendants for wearing Palestinian headscarves

10. Australian and Japanese foreign and defense ministers meet in the name of "peace" while branding China as their greatest threat

11. US officials not satisfied enough with Australia's efforts to transform itself into a frontline state for an American-led war against China

12. Establishment candidates in the Sri Lankan presidential race share silence about imperialist preparations for another world war

13. UK Trades Union Congress happy to cooperate with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's "big business mandate"

14. Trade union bureaucracies' cooperation with government and businesses is behind coming job losses in the British steel industry

15. UK water utilities dump raw sewage and demand consumers pay higher costs

16. Thousands to lose jobs after Australia sets severe limits on welcoming foreign exchange students 

17. Sanitation workers in Maryland prepare to strike for better pay and working conditions

18. Rank-and-file Royal Mail workers in the UK plan an organizational Zoom meeting for Sunday to address difficult working conditions

19. Thousands of rank-and-file Boeing workers hold a demonstration at Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington

20. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees urges the 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) at Boeing to reject the new sellout contract!

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1. In 2024 virtually tied presidential race, most Americans to choose between the candidate of fascist dictatorship, Republican Donald Trump, and the candidate of imperialist world war, Democrat Kamala Harris

2. Contrast between words and actions: UK officialdom's cynicism and hypocrisy amid 125,000 marching in London against Israel's genocide in Palestine

3. "Jews are not in support of the actions of the leaders of Israel": World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to protesters at at London rally, including Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos

4. World Socialist Web Site reporters speak to asylum seekers, languishing on "bridging visas", protesting the Australian Labor government's draconian anti-immigration policies

5. Fascistic thugs violently attack asylum seekers in Dublin, Ireland

6. “The best contract we’ve negotiated in our history” is a sellout: Boeing workers angry with union agreement that will leave them making less than they did 10 years ago

7. SMART-TD sellout deal for railroad workers is among the latest which has been quietly announced over the past few weeks

8. Two more coal miners killed in separate incidents in Queensland, Australia's hazardous mining industry

9. Delta airline workers at ATL tragically injured and killed in an accident at a maintenance facility

10. The threat posed by avian influenza rises after a new human case without known exposure to an infected animal is hospitalized in Missouri 

11. The journal Nature publishes a groundbreaking study that investigated common COVID-induced blood clotting; suggests new ways to treat patients

12. On a minor detail, the Nevada Supreme Court denies democracy by ordering Green Party US presidential candidate Jill Stein to be removed from its state's ballot

13. Public sector nurses and midwives in New South Wales, Australia to strike in opposition to wage cuts

14. Audi autoworkers in Belgium set up tents and protest camps on factory premises to strike against VW conglomerate

15.  Traitorous SAG-AFTRA union sabotages oppressed video game creators' by taking workers off the picket line and stalling negotiations 

16. Socialist Equality Party candidate in the Sri Lankan presidential election, Pani Wijesiriwardena, gives official speech: "The SEP is the only party that tells the truth to the working class."

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1. Historic breakdown of democracy: class conflict brews in France after President Macron rejects popular will to build reactionary government

2. Turkish-American political activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank

3. Publishers draw knives against the Internet Archive headquartered in San Francisco

4. Erasing Putin's "red lines" and fishing for more weapons and aid: an assessment of Ukraine's month-old incursion into Russia's Kursk region

5. Why are four Americans currently on trial in Florida for sedition, and who are they?

6. Up against a corporate dictatorship, a pro-war, pro-austerity Liberal government, and a venal Teamsters union bureaucracy, can oppressed Canadian railworkers get help from the New Democratic Party?

7. Brazil bans Twitter/X: by blaming social media for the rise of fascism, the pseudo-left glosses over the responsibility of its own treacherous policies, and gives the extreme right the opportunity to fraudulently present themselves as defenders of “freedom of expression"

8. US Biden administration hopes for a regime change in Venezuela without stoking a civil war, disrupting petroleum imports, or provoking another wave of refugees

9. Egyptian and Turkish presidents meet to strengthen their ties amid Israel’s US-NATO-backed genocide in Gaza

10. Lawsuit initiated to challenge Australian government's attempt to control a union is a political diversion, designed to demobilize workers and place their struggles into legal limbo

11. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra calls acclaimed pianist's demand to be compensated after being censored, "outrageous"

12. Ruthless Sri Lankan president poses as a great democrat, anti-racialist, and a man working to improve living conditions of the masses, by apologizing to religious groups for cremating bodies at the beginning of the COVID pandemic

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1. Perspective: mass shooting at Georgia high school provides glimpse of "the savage violence lying just underneath the surface of American society"

2. The United States' 2024 "Billionaire Election"

3. Ukraine gripped by an economic, military, and social crisis: Zelensky, who presides without a legal mandate, seeks "new energy" by an overhaul of his advisors

4. Warning to dockworkers: because a sellout contract is in the works, militant threats of a US east coast strike coming from ILA bureaucrats is so much "hot air"

5. Israeli attacks continue amid international efforts to vaccinate vulnerable Gazans against spreading polio

6. Trampling on snap election popular results, French president Macron installs a far-right prime minister at the center of official politics

7. "Far less than meets the eye": ahead of elections, Canada's New Democratic Party tries to avoid being linked with Trudeau's hated Liberal government

8. Amid advanced preparations for a war against China, the US issues diplomatic missions to the Pacific to shore up its unchallenged economic and geostrategic dominance in the region

9. After rejecting a collective agreement to have their pay cut, angry Wellington, New Zealand railroad workers are poised to vote for a strike

10. Social relations in contemporary Sri Lanka laid bare in the poignant, multilayered, and compelling film, Paradise

11. Grim realities behind the CDC's conviction that Americans have the tools to deal with "endemic" COVID is juxtaposed to promising study results about the benefits of the diabetes drug, Metformin

12. New studies in the United Kingdom point out risks and prevalence of Long COVID

13. A mass shooting on a Chicago commuter train: US political establishment demands increased public safety spending while distracting the public from identifying hidden causes of routine violence

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1. Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz characterize the Republicans merely as “weird”, while Trump and his fascist MAGA loyalists feverishly plot another coup

2. Why did a 14-year-old open fire and kill students and teachers at a Georgia high school?

3. Imperialist-directed troops deployed to assist the corrupt Haitian police to re-establish “law and order" in Haiti; US Secretary of State Antony Blinken set to visit soon

4. The calamitous state of arts education in the US is a symptom of a diseased, decaying society: California College of the Arts in San Francisco struggles to stay open

5. Israeli military signals that it is preparing a full-scale invasion of the West Bank

6. UK's limiting of arms exports to Israel is a cynical ploy to insulate Starmer's Labour government from a domestic backlash

7. As Boeing workers prepare to strike, their union is A preparing a pro-corporate sellout behind their backs

8. Official figures indicate that if it is not in economic recession now, Australia is heading there soon

9. Teamsters' betrayals are exposed as workers are tossed from closing Anheuser-Busch distribution centers

10. As part of its integration into US-led imperialist war plans targeting China, Canada imposes 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles

11. Workers unable to call 911: a 48-year-old mother dies at a USPS distribution facility near Atlanta, Georgia

12. State-sanctioned final report about the criminal 2017 Grenfell residential tower inferno in London is a 1,700-page whitewash

13. Frustrated oil workers force a Teamsters strike against a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate's refinery in Detroit, Michigan

14. A tragedy that could have been prevented: refugees drown in the English Channel after their dinghy capsizes

15. Genocide cheerleader and former US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley meets with Taiwan president Lai Ching-te to discuss "preventing war by preparing for war"

16. Evan Blake's report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party: A socialist response to capitalism's "forever COVID" policy

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1. Why did the far-right AfD make gains in German elections? "The establishment parties rolled out the red carpet and opened all doors for them."

2. The West Bank: Israel's second brutal front against the Palestinians

3. New study of economic mobility punctures myths that place racial inequality as the most decisive factor in predicting access to opportunity and a good life in the United States

4. Latest polls bury the driving factors behind Australians' widespread displeasure with the Australian Labor government

5. As their contract expires, east coast dockworkers should be wary of the theatrical show being prepared for them by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

6. A sham union vote is being prepared in advance of 33,000 Boeing machinists' plan to strike after their contract expires on September 12

7. VW workers must participate in the founding of an independent action committee in advance of planned job cuts and their union's betrayal

8. Socialist's review of a traveling exhibition of modernist Ukrainian art, now at the London Royal Academy, goes beyond the show's nationalist narrative

9. Pani Wijesiriwardena, the Socialist Equality Party candidate in the Sri Lankan presidential election promotes his party's program

10. The World Socialist Web Site publishes declarations of support and demands for freedom on behalf of the Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk

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