Private bond holders, with the IMF’s tacit support, are seeking to bully the Sri Lankan government into accepting higher repayments or face the withholding of the next tranche of the IMF loan.
“There’s no doubt about the state of the world right now. It’s so terrifying. That’s why we’re all here, to show that we’re anti-war. With Russia and Ukraine too, there is just conflict everywhere at the moment. It has to stop.”
India: Tamil Nadu tea plantation workers demand on-time wage payments and improved social conditions; Australia: Child safety support workers strike in Tasmania; Federal court intervenes against striking Queensland’s Cross River Rail construction workers
Health workers in Victoria have rejected Labor’s 3 percent nominal pay increase and voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action including work stoppages of up to four hours.
The threat of a US- and Australian-instigated destabilisation campaign in Solomon Islands remains a very real one.
The ongoing exemptions granted to Kiev from following basic human and democratic rights are further proof that Ukraine is de facto a police state in which dissent is suppressed with dictatorial measures.
In the face of mass protests throughout the United States, the Biden administration has made clear it will continue its policy of arming, funding, and politically supporting the Gaza genocide and shielding its perpetrators.
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan call on members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization to vote “No” on the sellout contract announced by the LEO leadership and organize a strike to halt the repression of peaceful student protests at U-M and nationwide against US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Mancilla, a former official from the Harvard grad student union, is attempting to get out in front of the anti-war sentiment. He played a leading role in passing a UAW ceasefire resolution in December. But that remained a dead letter, and the UAW endorsed Biden only weeks later, with Mancilla in attendance.
Agent of Happiness is a documentary about the “Gross National Happiness” survey conducted in the small kingdom of Bhutan, situated between India and China.
After nine months without a contract, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers announced a “historic” contract for teachers at the same time MPS officials have stated that they will need to cut $110 million, and that “everything is on the table.”
The much-touted “firewall” against the extreme right, which has always been a fiction, is to definitively fall after the European elections.
The Osnabrück decree, which came into force on May 1, has one central goal: making Germany fit for war again, despite its crimes in two world wars, by preparing for war against Russia.
Students, supported by many faculty and other opponents of Israel’s Canadian government-backed genocidal assault on the Palestinians of Gaza, have set up encampments at universities in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.
The decision was first announced in President Petro's May Day speech, delivered Wednesday to tens of thousands of supporters in Bogota.
Around 330,000 people took part in over 450 May Day demonstrations and rallies across Germany on Wednesday.
Retail workers should place no faith in the Verdi trade union, which has once again welcomed a supposed “saviour” for Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof and is actively assisting in imposing redundancies and closures.
After speaking with Zelensky, Cameron told reporters, “But let's be absolutely clear, Russia has launched an attack into Ukraine and Ukraine absolutely has the right to strike back at Russia.”
It was clear that the top echelons of President Abdel Fattah’s al-Sisi’s brutal dictatorship were involved in a state abduction and murder. But the imperialist powers, including Britain where Regeni was studying, largely remained silent on his death.
I have spent the majority of my working life working with people who have struggled with mental and physical health problems, who have had to depend on the benefits system to be able to live day to day.
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
Support grows around the world in response to the campaign demanding the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist and opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
The projection, which underscores how far Israel has gone in enforcing its deliberate ethnic cleansing of the enclave, is based on the highly improbable assumptions that the war ends now and the Zionist regime allows a five-fold increase of construction material imports into Gaza.
The White House fears that the student response to Israeli genocide foreshadows a mass antiwar movement in the working class.
Beams pointed to the roots of the pseudo-left in tendencies that broke from the Trotskyist movement and rejected the revolutionary role of the working class.
Workers are demanding answers after the sudden death of the 46-year-old worker at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant.
The impact of the mass layoffs and firings by Stellantis and other Detroit automakers have further undermined conditions in the factories via overwork and job overloading.
In a letter to the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association, 1,000 workers have demanded a meeting “to call on elected officials to adopt a 30 percent pay increase claim.”
Joshua Dean’s death came suddenly—the Seattle Times reported that he began having trouble breathing two weeks ago and was hospitalized and intubated.
The new ban in Florida effectively outlaws abortion across the American South.
Several thousand steelworkers demonstrated in front of the main Thyssenkrupp plant in the north of Duisburg. IG Metall brought them there from all Thyssenkrupp sites in North Rhine-Westphalia and from Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann in the south of Duisburg.
French police are systematically crushing attempted student occupations and threatening opposition politicians with bogus terrorism charges for statements of solidarity with Gaza.
Britain’s gestapo-style operation began this week. On Wednesday, the Home Office put out a celebratory video showing immigration enforcement goons raiding houses, bringing out people detained in handcuffs and bundling them into a van.
Widespread stoppages in Greece on May Day across most sectors denounce Gaza genocide and austerity; ongoing protests in Iran against cost-of-living crisis by pensioners, industrial and agricultural workers; doctors and clinicians strike continues in Kenya for almost two months over staff shortages, pay cuts and lack funding
The single word judgement after an inspection by schools’ watchdog Ofsted, that a school is either outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate, will remain says government, despite universal condemnation.
The decision raises the prospect of turmoil in international currency markets where the Japanese yen has been falling and hit its lowest rate against the dollar in 34 years on Monday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Tuesday that a military assault on Rafah “would be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.”
Teamsters Local 952 rushed through a sellout agreement for OCTA bus operators with a very slim majority and a sizable abstention.
Students have taken a courageous stand. But their actions anticipate an even more powerful movement in the working class. The issues they have raised cannot be resolved on the campuses, but rather in the factories, warehouses, railroads and docks.
The unions called the rallies in order to block any mobilisation of the working class and to bolster illusions in the deeply discredited Labour Party, which agrees with austerity and with New Zealand’s integration into US imperialist wars.
The fascist ex-president suggested possible prosecution of Biden, immunity for police violence, and the military round-up of 20 million immigrants.
Last week’s oral arguments before the US Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for any actions he took while president, including his attempted coup of January 6, 2021, brought out divisions among the nine justices over criminality in the White House.
The ongoing Israeli mass murder in Gaza and stepped up brutality and repression on the West Bank provide immediate, living context, if such be needed, for Farah Nabulsi’s film.
The CAQ government is determined to push through an employer-dictated construction industry “modernization,” aimed at boosting profits at the expense of workers’ jobs and safety.
General Motors announced last Friday the shutdown of its manufacturing plants in Colombia and Ecuador, eliminating about 1,300 jobs, along with thousands more indirectly.
A new law will extend arbitrary police powers, enabling the state to limit and ban protests.
This underscores the potential internationally for students protesting the genocide to mobilize the working class to halt the genocide and the war.
Students in the UK have taken action in solidarity with those in the US facing down fierce police repression and fascist violence to protest the imperialist-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Students at University College Dublin protested the visit of the former Democratic Party speaker of the US House of Representatives who had been invited to receive an honorary degree.
Even if industrial action is called, this will be of a token character with no call for support from other steelworkers in Britain, Europe and internationally. And without such an appeal workers will continue to be played off against one another in an endless race to the bottom.
The miserable tentative contract agreement at Daimler Truck has been hailed by Biden and leading Democrats as another supposed “historics” win for workers
The third week of Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial began on Tuesday with more details about payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
Events were hosted in person on campuses at the University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle and Western Sydney University. An in-person meeting was also held in Brisbane and an online one in New Zealand.
What is required is the struggle for socialism, based on a turn to the working class, the social force whose fundamental interests align with reconstructing society to address the climate crisis.
These calls to bomb 1.5 million defenseless civilians in Rafah expose that, by backing Israel’s war on Gaza, NATO governments are supporting genocidal war crimes.
Ukraine is becoming more and more like a giant prison for its own trapped and disenfranchised population. Now, the authorities even seek to force those back inside who had managed to escape it.
The drastic cost-cutting in the already understaffed and underfunded public health system is intensifying a crisis of patient care.
On Thursday, April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk—a socialist opponent of the right-wing Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war—was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine.
Five days earlier, Sanchez had suddenly threatened to resign, after far-right forces published unsubstantiated allegations of corruption targeting Sánchez’ wife, Begoña Gómez.
Having largely adopted the AfD’s political programme on refugees and domestic policy, the federal government now wants to overtake it from the right in foreign policy.
As anti-genocide student protests sweep the country DeSantis is injecting anti-communist propaganda into all grades throughout the state’s public schools.
The measures are a show of force by the Erdoğan-led state apparatus against those marking the international day of struggle of the working class.
In her 60s, she was strip-searched, handcuffed so tightly it caused pain, denied access to food, water and medication for several hours, and held overnight in a cold cell without adequate clothing or blankets, conditions her lawyers described as “terrible” and designed to humiliate.
In addition to the billions already allocated to Ukraine, the 2024 defence budget is expected to rise by nearly 43 percent, a war-budget that is expected to continually rise each year to reach an initial sum of €21.4 billion euros, or roughly 2 percent of the Dutch GDP by 2030.
Postal workers voiced support for building rank-and-file committees in their own workplaces: “It would certainly upset the Communication Workers Union, and their collusion with Royal Mail, if they knew masses of the workforce stood against their joint campaign.”
On Monday afternoon, organizers of the student encampment at Northwestern University (NU) in the north suburb of Chicago reached an agreement behind closed doors with the university administration and shut down the protest against the genocide in Gaza.
Albanese arrived a little over 24 hours after the Chinese foreign minister left, and couched his entire visit in terms of collaboration between Australia and its then colony in World War II.
Led by young workers and Middle Eastern families, more than 100 people rallied and marched through Surfers Paradise on Saturday to denounce the intensifying Israeli genocide in Gaza and the Australian Labor government’s support for it.
We call on all students at Sri Lankan universities and higher education institutions, and the working class, to defend protesting US students and to oppose the Netanyahu government’s genocidal military operation in Gaza.
The picture presented by the governor of the Italian central bank was of a world in which all the economic and political institutions set in place after 1945 to prevent war are breaking down.
ICC prosecutors have interviewed medical personnel at Shifa and Nasser hospitals, where Israeli forces reportedly carried out summary executions and dumped bodies in mass graves.
Murdoch’s Australian blatantly sought to link a Sydney University anti-genocide encampment to a witch hunt against seven Islamic teenagers arrested last week on flimsy “terrorism” charges.
In the “historic” 2023 contract the UAW lifted all restrictions on management’s right to impose mandatory overtime, including seven-day operations.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced new working hour rules for air traffic controllers following a runway incident at Reagan National Airport on April 18 in which two jetliners came within 400 feet of each other.
Some writers and directors are making heartfelt films about the poor and oppressed.
The German Train Drivers' Union has announced that 77 percent of its members voted in favor of accepting the collective agreement the union reached with Deutsche Bahn. The GDL provided no information on the turnout.
Non-contract teachers in Sao Paulo, Brazil strike against privatization, while a strike vote by Canadian rail workers at CPKC and CN is set to conclude May 1.
The FDA reported last week that one in five milks samples from US retail stores contained fragments of the H5N1 bird flu that has recently infected dairy cows in the US.
Police officers employed force, using batons and painful holds in breaking up the peaceful protest camp, then immediately kettled a spontaneous counter-demonstration, arresting dozens of participants.
Imperialist war is incompatible with democracy. The more openly the German government pursues rearmament and war, the more the freedom of expression must give way to political censorship and conformity.
The anger expressed by students over the support of the political establishment for Israel’s genocide in Gaza is shared by thousands who have participated in protests.
The Hi-Viz policy was a key issue when railroaders pushed for strike action in 2022, before it was pre-emptively banned by Congress and Biden.
All charges must be dropped against Stein and the hundreds of others who have been arrested while protesting in recent weeks.
Confronted with the loss of thousands of jobs, 10,000 steel workers from Thyssenkrupp and HKM are holding a joint works meeting on April 30 in Duisburg.
Students have taken a courageous stand. But we, the working class, have to be the base of the fight against war.
The ongoing crisis around the Scottish National Party marks the end of all claims that the SNP, and its project of Scottish independence represents a left alternative.
As 200,000 took part in a national demonstration against the Gaza genocide in London on Saturday, thousands more participated in local protests around the country.
On Friday, the US Defense Department announced it was sending its largest weapons order to Ukraine to date, totaling $6 billion, after President Joe Biden signed into law a $95 billion military spending bill last Wednesday.
Marles’ visit confirmed that Australia is now providing lethal aid to Ukraine, making it a de facto participant in the US-NATO conflict with Russia.
At the top of the list of US demands was the insistence that China assist the US and its NATO allies in crippling the Russian economy, particularly its war industries.
Not one of the assembled journalists raised the criminal role of the Biden administration in the Israeli mass murder in Gaza.
The CFPE forum called for educators to mobilise against the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza and the accompanying crackdown on democratic rights.
As the television documentary series progresses, historians and critics of US foreign policy are replaced by some—for lack of a better phrase—of the world’s leading war criminals.
The Japanese government is working to gain an understanding of where Trump stands on the war drive against China and to ensure Tokyo is not left in the lurch should he win the US presidency.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
The new contract for workers at MASS MoCA, highly regarded and one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the US, raises wages to only $18 an hour, leaving workers earning well below a living wage.
Mobilizing the working class internationally to halt the genocide requires breaking with the nationalist outlook of pseudo-left groups that subordinate workers to the Spanish capitalist state.
The Day of Mourning and the stated purposes behind it has been in effect for 34 years. Yet at our workplace alone, four people, brothers Andrew Kenmuir, Fraser Cowan, Colin Grayley, Quoc Le, have been gruesomely killed in 20 years—three of them in less than two.
All workers and youth opposed to genocide and the many students now returning to campus must take forward a struggle independently from and against the trade union bureaucracy, and all those appealing to the “political establishment”.
Students have been violently arrested for protesting on campuses in at least 25 states so far.
