1-month-long strike by Norwegian oil service workers ended

For appearances’ sake, the capitalist Norwegian state invokes democracy and equality before the law. In practice, however, this has long been countered by a strike law designed to suppress industrial ...

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Stellantis worker James Brasher killed on the job—the third death under the UAW’s “historic” 2023 contract

Brasher is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.

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Christopher Nolan’s <em>The Odyssey</em>: A social and cultural phenomenon

Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.

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Japanese PM makes brief visit to Kumamoto quake zone

Takaichi announced her government would designate the earthquake “a disaster of extreme severity,” but only provided $US127 million in assistance for the devastated prefecture.

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Australia: Queensland teachers face longer freeze on pay and conditions

Despite two widely supported 24-hour strikes last year, educators in Queensland remain straitjacketed in an arbitration system, facing a more than two-year pay freeze and no relief from intolerable wo...

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<em>The War in Ukraine and the Struggle for Socialism: The Case of Bogdan Syrotjuk</em>—now available from Mehring Verlag

This book provides the first comprehensive account of Bogdan’s case and brings together his own writings and analyses the historical and political causes of the war in Ukraine.

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Nicaragua moves to ban “Yankee” agents from elections as Trump policies hit economy

The Sandinista government is pushing a constitutional reform excluding US-funded parties from elections, even as it answers imperialist pressure with concessions to Washington and foreign capital.

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ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status

The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.

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BMW cuts 8,000 jobs in Germany

As the last of the major German carmakers, BMW has now joined the ranks of corporations destroying jobs on a massive scale, agreeing with IG Metall to cut around 8,000 positions—almost one in 10 of it...

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First deaths in US cyclosporiasis outbreak reported in Michigan

Two people have died in Michigan in the largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis ever recorded in the United States.

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FBI targets Chinese-American media executive in expanding anti-China campaign

The raids expose the growing anti-China witch-hunt as a pretext for building the legal framework to criminalize political opposition.

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<em>Ultimate Classroom</em>: War propaganda in Australian schools

This TV program is a full-throated promotion of militarism, seeking to counter the animosity toward war among young people.

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Canada’s ruling class exploits “anti-scab” legislation hailed by union bureaucracy to break strikes

The Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled for the second time in less than a month, July 22, that management at the strikebound Bank of Canada, a key institution of the Canadian capitalist state, we...

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Rescue of 173 migrants narrowly averts mass Channel deaths, as Burnham pledges “relentless” efforts to “stop the boats”

A report titled <em>How ‘stopping the boats’ kills</em> show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".

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Ontario to Bordeaux to Spokane: The escalating climate crisis and the fight for socialism

More than 60,000 workers and their families have been driven from their homes in Spokane, Washington, as wildfires destroy hundreds of structures in the worst climate-related disaster in the region's ...

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Dollar fears prompt US-Japan yen rescue operation

Concerns were growing that sales of dollar assets by Japan to prop up its currency could have adversely impacted the US bond market.

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Burnham pledges to be “relentless” in blocking migrants crossing the Channel

Amid a right-wing backlash following events at Ceuta encompassing all Europe’s capitalist parties, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham travelled to Dover on Sunday to take his place in this xenophobic camp...

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Health workers in Britain defend Will Lehman against violent threat by UAW bureaucracy

NHS FightBack, representing rank-and-file doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, e-mailed a letter to the UAW to register outrage and demand immediate action.

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Joint US–Saudi attack on Iraq widens front of the imperialist war in Middle East

What Washington called “precision strikes” were an open extension of the war into Iraq, carried out with the participation of Saudi Arabia that can no longer be concealed behind the fiction of “defens...

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East Midlands Railway workers strike over safety following Bedford crash

The RMT organised pickets at several stations, including Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and London St Pancras. The stoppage forced EMR to run a skeleton service between Sheffield and Nottingham, with on...

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The contemporary relevance of Felix Morrow’s <em>Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain</em>

Felix Morrow’s Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain is one of the oldest, yet also one of the most relevant books on the Spanish Civil War, stated Peter Schwarz, a member of the World Socialist ...

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German government in crisis

The government’s disastrous poll ratings reflect growing opposition to policies that enjoy no support whatsoever among the population.

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UAW presidential debate reveals class divide between socialist autoworker Will Lehman and pro-apparatus candidates

Lehman advanced a program of rank-and-file power, internationalism and the abolition of the UAW bureaucracy in stark contrast to the other candidates seeking to place themselves at the head of the cor...

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Mass arrests of Palestine Action defenders outside Westminster Magistrates Court

Since the Labour government’s proscription of Palestine Action one year ago, 3,500 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act (2000) for holding cardboard signs reading, “I oppose genocide, I s...

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Royal Mail's DM26 rollout exposes CWU's partnership with management—organise the rank-and-file fightback

The Communication Workers Union bureaucracy has co-authored this wrecking operation because it accepts EP Group’s drive to make Royal Mail "competitive" and "sustainable" for the company’s billionaire...

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American workers and youth are turning towards socialism

A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democra...

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Ukraine’s attack on Iranian ship exposes global character of imperialist war

Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea demonstrates the fraud that the NATO war against Russia is a “defensive” or “liberating” struggle. Ukraine is becoming an active front in the sam...

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Roger Waters reimagines the Pink Floyd classic “Comfortably Numb” as appeal for Palestinian rights

Waters, the internationally acclaimed musician and founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd, releases a “reimagined” version of the 1979 iconic track “Comfortably Numb” with Palestinian artist Mona...

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Greens-led Haringey Council backs KPMG auditors’ demands for savage cuts

The Greens have prostrated themselves before KPMG, pledging a three-year “Financial Resilience Plan” that will slash spending on key service areas including housing and adult social care “where spendi...

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Burnham’s business secretary reassures <em>Financial Times</em> of Labour’s pro-market bona fides

Jonathan Reynolds reassured the FT that Burnham's talk of facilitating “public control” over critical sectors of the economy was an appeal for collaboration with private investors not an attempt to co...

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